Carrying a Beat
I love music. No. That isn't accurate. I LOVE MUSIC! Some of my very first blog posts were just lists of what I was really into at the time. This goes back to the hype of the original iPod, but I was collecting cassettes as a kid.
I clearly remember my first CDs. The main two I loved were the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Original Soundtrack and Vanilla Ice's Ice Ice Baby. I remember "converting" all my CDs into mp3s. I converted quite a few of my friend's CDs into my collection as well. I remember the debate on going completely "digital." I was convinced I would really miss having physical media.
I also remember putting that huge CD binder in my car and knowing I would never really need to bring the discs inside since I could just shuffle my iTunes on my laptop. I remember spending tons of money on a car dock for my iPod and dragging that heavy CD binder back in the house and tossing it in the top of the closet. I remember hating myself for that when I got a vehicle with an aux cord input.
Let's take a moment out here and remember Napster. I remember downloading digital copies of stuff I owned. I also remember replacing a TON of songs that I had lost over the years. I remember pirating a bunch of stuff. I also remember Napster disappearing. I remember Limewire. I remember Bearshare. I remember there being a lot more porn than music available from p2p servers. I remember thinking that I would rather pay for a legit CD than to pay for a digital download. I remember the first time I changed my mind on that. Thanks, Amazon.
I remember ditching the iPod for my first Android phone. Sure I missed the Apple organization and interface, but I mostly just shuffle songs anyway. I remember trying to copy my music library onto my next Android phone and having to buy a bigger micro SD card. I remember finding out that having ALL of my songs with me all of the time was stupid. I started creating the mobile playlist of my favorite songs. I remember when I ran out of authorizations on my apple purchased songs and deciding to ditch Apple Music in favor of Amazon.
The music library grew. Then it exploded. I started a new music monthly budget. I often exceeded it.
During my vacation, I shortened my to-do list significantly so that I could tackle some time consuming little projects. I decided to box up all the comics I own that are not on a current publishing run. Separating the current run comics from the out of print stuff cut the comic boxes sitting around my bedroom in half. I will lose another short box worth when I put away X-men Blue, Red, and Gold soon. I also made some checklists, organized my movie collection, and cleaned out my closet (emotionally and literally). Finally, last night I worked on a project I had been avoiding. I cleaned up my digital photo collection and moved everything to my cloud service. A side effect of this horrible chore was finding my back up file for my music collection.
I was unbelievably stoked. Back in February, I lost all my music. My laptop had dumped its hard drive. I was completely bummed out. I pulled out the CD binder and ripped songs for days. I downloaded from Apple and Amazon. Still, I knew I was missing about 2000 songs. That is a TON of music to lose.
Imagine my happiness when I find my music folder stashed in a subfolder of my pictures back up. It probably wasn't the most up to date back up, but it was the same files I have been building since the digital music age began. I wasted no time merging my new collection and the old. The 7,281 song count pictured above is the result. I am missing a few things, but I cannot quantify what they are. No big deal.
The next item on my checklist is more complicated. I need to clean out and change the music on my phone. That playlist started from my favorites list on iTunes. Anything I rated 5 stars was probably worth carrying around. The problem is that my tastes change and I didn't always go adjust my star rating. I ended up with a TON of songs I was tired of hearing repeated. Also, because of copying music around in several places I ended up with 3 and 4 copies of a few songs which skewed how random my playlists really were.
Here is the MONSTER of a list that was on my phone:
My playlists really have different needs. When driving the car I need two different types of music. I need reflective tunes like Celine Dion's Ashes or Son of A Preacher Man by Dusty Springfield. I also need moving songs like Rob Zombie's Dragula or Move Bitch by Ludacris. Those are far apart headspaces.
The motorcycle and the gym are similar but not exactly the same. I have a Fly Me To The Moon by Frank Sinatra mood on the bike. It is a very happy to be alive and free mood. I am cruising listening to Frank. The same mood fits Dolly Parton's Here You Come Again but doesn't work at all with 9 to 5. The latter gets me hype and I stop cruising and start enjoying moving faster. I lean more into curves and negotiate traffic more aggressively. Praying or Bastards by Kesha will reel me right back in.
Likewise, I can get down to 9 to 5 in the gym, but Jolene breaks my rhythm. Shut up and Dance is pretty right on. There is also TOO hard for the gym. Smack My Bitch Up is almost distracting. Dragula and More Human than Human is moving just a touch too aggressively for putting in steady rhythmic lifting. I am trying to lift slowly and keep good form not frenzy. Of course, Say Something by Great Big World can blow the entire vibe. Love the song, but all this has a place and time.
Does anyone else feel this? Is this another way I am really weird? I don't get along well with people who don't love music. I think I may be deeper into it than most, though. I am really curious how the people in my life relate to music and feelings. I think you can look through my list, besides learning I am a 14-year-old girl with a crush on Kesha and Taylor Swift, and find out a lot about what I like. Honestly, posting that list feels like baring my neck. I am normally good with vulnerability. I want people to know me if they like me or not. That is why I do this whole blog thing. It sure would be nice to get more response from it. Oh well, I am going to go build a playlist or three.
I clearly remember my first CDs. The main two I loved were the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Original Soundtrack and Vanilla Ice's Ice Ice Baby. I remember "converting" all my CDs into mp3s. I converted quite a few of my friend's CDs into my collection as well. I remember the debate on going completely "digital." I was convinced I would really miss having physical media.
I also remember putting that huge CD binder in my car and knowing I would never really need to bring the discs inside since I could just shuffle my iTunes on my laptop. I remember spending tons of money on a car dock for my iPod and dragging that heavy CD binder back in the house and tossing it in the top of the closet. I remember hating myself for that when I got a vehicle with an aux cord input.
Let's take a moment out here and remember Napster. I remember downloading digital copies of stuff I owned. I also remember replacing a TON of songs that I had lost over the years. I remember pirating a bunch of stuff. I also remember Napster disappearing. I remember Limewire. I remember Bearshare. I remember there being a lot more porn than music available from p2p servers. I remember thinking that I would rather pay for a legit CD than to pay for a digital download. I remember the first time I changed my mind on that. Thanks, Amazon.
I remember ditching the iPod for my first Android phone. Sure I missed the Apple organization and interface, but I mostly just shuffle songs anyway. I remember trying to copy my music library onto my next Android phone and having to buy a bigger micro SD card. I remember finding out that having ALL of my songs with me all of the time was stupid. I started creating the mobile playlist of my favorite songs. I remember when I ran out of authorizations on my apple purchased songs and deciding to ditch Apple Music in favor of Amazon.
The music library grew. Then it exploded. I started a new music monthly budget. I often exceeded it.
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I was unbelievably stoked. Back in February, I lost all my music. My laptop had dumped its hard drive. I was completely bummed out. I pulled out the CD binder and ripped songs for days. I downloaded from Apple and Amazon. Still, I knew I was missing about 2000 songs. That is a TON of music to lose.
Imagine my happiness when I find my music folder stashed in a subfolder of my pictures back up. It probably wasn't the most up to date back up, but it was the same files I have been building since the digital music age began. I wasted no time merging my new collection and the old. The 7,281 song count pictured above is the result. I am missing a few things, but I cannot quantify what they are. No big deal.
The next item on my checklist is more complicated. I need to clean out and change the music on my phone. That playlist started from my favorites list on iTunes. Anything I rated 5 stars was probably worth carrying around. The problem is that my tastes change and I didn't always go adjust my star rating. I ended up with a TON of songs I was tired of hearing repeated. Also, because of copying music around in several places I ended up with 3 and 4 copies of a few songs which skewed how random my playlists really were.
Here is the MONSTER of a list that was on my phone:
| Title | Artist |
| Don't Trust Me | 3OH!3 |
| Amnesia | 5 Seconds of Summer |
| Say Something | A Great Big World Featuring Christina Agulera |
| Hells Bells | AC/DC |
| Shoot to Thrill | AC/DC |
| Hello | Adele |
| Send My Love (To Your New Lover) | Adele |
| Water Under the Bridge | Adele |
| Dream On | Aerosmith |
| Take on Me (MTV Unplugged) | A-ha |
| All Out of Love | Air Supply |
| Here | Alesia Cara |
| Out with the Old | Alley Life featuring Black Planet |
| Honey, I'm Good | Andy Grammar |
| Touch It | Ariana Grande |
| No Tears Left to Cry | Ariana Grande |
| What the Hell | Avril Lavigne |
| Sail | AWOLNation |
| The Shining | Badly Drawn Boy |
| I'm a Mess | Bebe Rexha |
| Hey Leonardo | Blessid Union of Souls |
| Hooked on a Feeling | Blue Swede |
| Two is Better than One | Boys Like Girls and Taylor Swift |
| The Lazy Song | Bruno Mars |
| Crazy Bitch | Buck Cherry |
| Whatever (I had a Dream) | Butthole Surfers |
| Jerk It Out | Caesers |
| Ain't No Rest for the Wicked | Cage the Elephant |
| Never There | Cake |
| Feels | Calvin Harris feat. Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry & Big Sean |
| Never be the Same | Camila Cabello |
| Something's Gotta Give | Camila Cabello |
| Into It | Camila Cabello |
| Havana | Camila Cabello |
| F__k You | Cee Lo Green |
| Ashes | Celine Dion |
| Bruises | Chairlift |
| Do You Feel It | Chaos Chaos |
| Boom Clap | Charli XCX |
| Surrender | Cheap Trick |
| If I Could Turn Back TIme | Cher |
| Want U Back | Cher Lloyd |
| Realize | Colbie Caillat |
| Fallin For You | Colbie Caillat |
| The Midnight Special | Creedance Clearwater Revival |
| Beat Me | Custom |
| Hey Mister | Custom |
| Disneyland | Dada |
| Crash | Dave Matthews Band |
| Golden Year | David Bowie |
| Police Truck | Dead Kennedys |
| Change | Deftones |
| Really Don't Care | Demi Lovato |
| Sorry Not Sorry | Demi Lovato |
| Welcome to the Party | Diplo, French Montana & Little Pump |
| Let Me Clear My Throat | DJ Kool |
| Nobody Speak | DJ Shadow |
| X Gon' Give It to YA | DMX |
| 9 to 5 | Dolly Parton |
| The Motto | Drake |
| HYFR | Drake |
| Mr. Blue Sky | Electric Light Orchestra |
| Ex's and Oh's | Elle King |
| Lights | Ellie Goulding |
| Love Me Like You Do | Ellie Goulding |
| My Immortal | Evanescence |
| Everybody's Fool | Evanescence |
| Haunted | Evanescence |
| Sweet Sacrifice | Evanescence |
| Good Enough | Evanescence |
| It Matters to Me | Faith Hill |
| Centuries | Fall Out Boy |
| Work From Home | Fifth Harmony |
| Worth It | Fifth Harmony |
| GDFR | Flo Rida |
| Cruise | Florida Georgia Line |
| The Pretender | Foo Fighters |
| Monkey Wrench | Foo Fighters |
| Everlong | Foo Fighters |
| Where'd You Go | Fort Minor |
| Pumped Up Kicks | Foster the People |
| I've Got You Under My Skin | Frank Sinatra |
| Fly Me To The Moon | Frank Sinatra |
| Bad Day | Fuel |
| When I Grow Up | Garbage |
| Push It | Garbage |
| Love Remains the Same | Gavin Rossdale |
| My Sweet Lord | George Harrison |
| Freedom 90 | George Michael |
| Spokesman | Goldfinger |
| Nice Guys FInish Last | Green Day |
| Brain Stew | Green Day |
| Jaded | Green Day |
| What You Waiting For | Gwen Stefani |
| I Get Off | Halestorm |
| We Run the Night | Havana Brown |
| Lips of an Angel | Hinder |
| Undead | Hollywood Undead |
| The Reason | Hoobastank |
| Only Wanna Be WIth You | Hootie & The Blowfish |
| Take Me to Church | Hozier |
| New Bitch | Iggy Azalea |
| Radioactive | Imagine Dragons |
| Drive | Incubus |
| Stellar | Incubus |
| Pardon Me | Incubus |
| I Wish You Were Here | Incubus |
| Here Comes the Hotstepper | Ini Kamoze |
| Jealous One | J.C. Loader |
| Dancing Machine | Jackson 5 |
| Blame It | Jamie Foxx Feat. T-Pain |
| Cold Hard Bitch | Jet |
| Long Live the Chief | Jidenna |
| Say | John Mayer |
| Hurt | Johnny Cash |
| Don't Stop Believin' | Journey |
| Issues | Julia Michaels |
| Love Yourself | Justin Bieber |
| Last Friday Night | Katy Perry |
| This is How We DO | Katy Perry |
| Yeah Boy | Kelsea Ballerini |
| We R Who We R | Kesha |
| Blow | Kesha |
| C'Mon | Kesha |
| Your Love is my Drug | Kesha |
| Praying | Kesha |
| Blah Blah Blah | Kesha Feat. 3OH!3 |
| Drank in my Cup | Kirko Bangz |
| Need You Now | Lady Antebellum |
| Telephone | Lady Gaga Feat. Beyonce |
| Kashmir | Led Zepplin |
| Immigrant Song | Led Zepplin |
| You're All I Want | Lifehouse |
| Rollin' | Limp Bizkit |
| My December | Linkin Park |
| Burn It Down | Linkin Park |
| One Step Closer | Linkin Park |
| Shadow of the Day | Linkin Park |
| Brandy | Looking Glass |
| Do I | Luke Bryan |
| Downtown | Macklemore & Ryan Lewis |
| The Devil's Song | Marcy Playground |
| In Time | Mark Collie |
| Moves Like Jagger | Maroon 5 |
| In the Name of Love | Martin Garrix & Bebe Rexha |
| Down & Out At the Twist and Shout | Mary Chapin Carpenter |
| Unwell | Matchbox 20 |
| Leave | Matchbox 20 |
| Push It | Matchbox 20 |
| Come On Get Higher | Matt Nathanson |
| Wedding Dress | Matt Nathanson |
| Look On Down From the Bridge | Mazzy Star |
| I'd Do Anything for Love | Meatloaf |
| Me Too | Meghan Trainor |
| Bitch | Meredith Brooks |
| Whiskey In the Jar | Metallica |
| Fuel | Metallica |
| Can't Be Tamed | Miley Cyrus |
| Welcome to the Black Parade | My Chemical Romance |
| Porn Star Dancing | My Darkest Days |
| After the Flesh | My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult |
| Shake Ya Ass | Mystikal |
| Danger | Mystikal |
| Guerilla Radio | Naughty By Nature |
| Pin The Tail on the Donkey | Naughty By Nature |
| Hair of the Dog | Nazzareth |
| Just A Dream | Nelly |
| Over and Over | Nelly |
| Animal | Neon Trees |
| Jealous | Nick Jonas |
| Burn It to the Ground | Nickelback |
| This Afternoon | Nickelback |
| Never Gonna Be Alone | Nickelback |
| Super Bass | Nicki Minaj |
| Smells Like Teen Spirit | Nirvana |
| Come As You Are | Nirvana |
| Spirit In The Sky | Norman Greenbaum |
| Champagne Supernova | Oasis |
| All the Right Moves | One Republic |
| Good Life | One Republic |
| Stop and Stare | One Republic |
| Apologize | One Republic |
| Secrets | One Republic |
| Somewhere Out There | Our Lady Peace |
| I'd Die Without You | P.M. Dawn |
| Still into You | Paramore |
| Flash Light | Parliment |
| The Bomb | Pigeon John |
| F__kin' Perfect | Pink |
| Raise Your Glass | Pink |
| Wish You Were Here | Pink Floyd |
| Comfortably Numb | Pink Floyd |
| Timber | Pitbull Feat. Kesha |
| Feel It Still | Portugal the Man |
| When Worlds Collide | Powerman 5000 |
| Cream | Prince |
| 500 Miles | Proclaimers |
| I'm On my Way | Proclaimers |
| Smack My Bitch Up | Prodigy |
| She Hates Me | Puddle oF Mudd |
| Du Hast | Rammstein |
| Buck Dich | Rammstein |
| Bang Bang | Rammstein |
| Scar Tissue | Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| Otherside | Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| Californication | Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| Soul to Squeeze | Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| Keep On Loving You | REO Speedwagon |
| S&M | Rihanna |
| Only Girl | Rihanna |
| We Found Love | Rihanna |
| Cheers | Rihanna |
| Savior | Rise Against |
| Help Is On The Way | Rise Against |
| Blurred Lines | Robin Thicke |
| Somebody's Watching Me | Rockwell |
| Hallelujah | Rufus Wainwright |
| It's Tricky | Run DMC |
| Almost Love | Sabrina Carpenter |
| Thumbs | Sabrina Carpenter |
| Ladies and Gentlemen | Saliva |
| Who do you Voodoo, Bitch | Sam B |
| Stay With Me | Sam Smith |
| The Animal Song | Savage Garden |
| Girl Next Door | Saving Jane |
| Good For You | Selena Gomez |
| Hands to Myself | Selena Gomez |
| Same Old Love | Selena Gomez |
| Angels to Dust | September Morning |
| 20 Below | September Morning |
| Superhuman | September Morning |
| Sound of Madness | Shinedown |
| Kiss Me | Sixpence None the Richer |
| Reptiles' Theme | Skrillex |
| Bangarang | Skrillex |
| Kyoto | Skrillex |
| Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites | Skrillex |
| Tonight, Tonight | Smashing Pumpkins |
| Zero | Smashing Pumpkins |
| Bullet with Butterfly Wings | Smashing Pumpkins |
| Thirty-Three | Smashing Pumpkins |
| 1979 | Smashing Pumpkins |
| Today | Smashing Pumpkins |
| Disarm | Smashing Pumpkins |
| Misery (Columbia) | Soul Asylum |
| Faded | Soul Decision |
| Kiss Me Thru the Phone | Soulja Boy |
| Copperhead Road | Steve Earle |
| Kick Some Ass | Stroke 9 |
| Answer the Phone | Sugar Ray |
| Style | Taylor Swift |
| Wildest Dreams | Taylor Swift |
| Back to December | Taylor Swift |
| Eyes Open | Taylor Swift |
| Love Story | Taylor Swift |
| Fifteen | Taylor Swift |
| You Belong With Me | Taylor Swift |
| Look What you Made me DO | Taylor Swift |
| ...Ready For It | Taylor Swift |
| Shake It Off | Taylor Swift |
| Blank Space | Taylor Swift |
| We Are Never Getting Back Together | Taylor Swift |
| Bad Blood | Taylor Swift |
| Deadpool Rap | Teamheadkick |
| Hood Go Crazy | Tech N9ne |
| The Golden Age | The Asteroids Galaxy Tour |
| The Time | The Black Eyed Peas |
| Howlin' For You | The Black Keys |
| #Selfie | The Chainsmokers |
| Closer | The Chainsmokers |
| Shadow on the Sun | The Civilian Project |
| Zombie | The Cranberries |
| Seneca Falls | The Distillers |
| Short Change Hero | The Heavy |
| I Want You Bad | The Offspring |
| The Kids Aren't Alright | The Offspring |
| Staring at the Sun | The Offspring |
| You're Gonna GO Far, Kid | The Offspring |
| Paint It Black | The Rolling Stones |
| Sympathy For the Devil | The Rolling Stones |
| I Wish It Would Rain | The Temptations |
| Untouched | The Veronicas |
| You and Me Song | The Wannadies |
| Starboy | The Weekend |
| Baba O'Riley | The Who |
| Low Life | Theory of a Deadman |
| I Hate Everything About You | Three Days Grace |
| Live Like You Were Dying | Tim McGraw |
| Free Falling | Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers |
| Mary Jane's Last Dance | Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers |
| You Wreck Me Baby | Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers |
| Runnin' Down A Dream | Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers |
| Feels Good | Tony! Toni! Tone! |
| Habits | Tove Lo |
| Bottoms Up | Trey Songz |
| Heart Attack | Trey Songz |
| Heathens | Twenty One Pilots |
| We're Not Gonna Take It | Twisted Sister |
| Save ME | Unwritten Law |
| Fall to Pieces | Velvet Revolver |
| We Like the Party | Vengaboys |
| Shut Up and Dance | Walk the Moon |
| In the Garage | Weezer |
| More Human Than Human | White Zombie |
| Electric Head Pt. 1 | White Zombie |
| Electric Head Pt 2 | White Zombie |
| Clarity | Zedd |
The motorcycle and the gym are similar but not exactly the same. I have a Fly Me To The Moon by Frank Sinatra mood on the bike. It is a very happy to be alive and free mood. I am cruising listening to Frank. The same mood fits Dolly Parton's Here You Come Again but doesn't work at all with 9 to 5. The latter gets me hype and I stop cruising and start enjoying moving faster. I lean more into curves and negotiate traffic more aggressively. Praying or Bastards by Kesha will reel me right back in.
Likewise, I can get down to 9 to 5 in the gym, but Jolene breaks my rhythm. Shut up and Dance is pretty right on. There is also TOO hard for the gym. Smack My Bitch Up is almost distracting. Dragula and More Human than Human is moving just a touch too aggressively for putting in steady rhythmic lifting. I am trying to lift slowly and keep good form not frenzy. Of course, Say Something by Great Big World can blow the entire vibe. Love the song, but all this has a place and time.
Does anyone else feel this? Is this another way I am really weird? I don't get along well with people who don't love music. I think I may be deeper into it than most, though. I am really curious how the people in my life relate to music and feelings. I think you can look through my list, besides learning I am a 14-year-old girl with a crush on Kesha and Taylor Swift, and find out a lot about what I like. Honestly, posting that list feels like baring my neck. I am normally good with vulnerability. I want people to know me if they like me or not. That is why I do this whole blog thing. It sure would be nice to get more response from it. Oh well, I am going to go build a playlist or three.
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